We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

oh that redhouse girl

from a dirty blue by taddy

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 AUD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

This song is inspired by an old song, Rising Sun Blues, from the 1800s which became 'House of the Rising Sun in the 1900s and which Bob Dylan, The Animals & others recorded, and they all claimed the song was 'traditional' and arranged by each artist. The song was around in various forms and names from mid-to-late 19th Century in the USA and folk-song curator Alan Lomax recorded a teenage Kentucky Girl singing her version of 'The House...'

Yet there are claims the chord progression, the sense of loss & despair, came from songs much earlier, way back even to 'Greensleeves' which was credited to Henry 8 in the 16th Century...or maybe 15th, I can't recall. Also the song 'Matty Groves' which Fairport Convention revived, is mentioned. I have take the notion and form of the song and now it is Melbourne in 2017...colin

lyrics

redhouse girl
there is a place in st kilda called the redhouse
you know the one
and its been the ruin of many a poor soul
and my girl you know she was one
that sweet sweet girl of mine sell her body to get on
you go up stairs to room number nine you knock three times on the door
you find my sweet sweet girl inside she working there to score

she got a money on her back she got a heart of stone
she dragging round a ball and chain
she sell her body just to get on

she told me that she love me, & she whispered and she moaned
ah but the only time she feels love is when she getting stoned

i got one foot on the platform i got one foot on the train
I am going down to st kilda, that girl is my ball and chain

i should go go and tell her sister
not to do what yar big sister done
you can give your soul to rock n roll but don’t sell your body to get stoned
there is a place down st kilda
its the red house you know the one
and its been the ruin of many a poor soul
and i know because i am one
i am one

credits

from a dirty blue, released September 1, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

taddy image

taddy Saint Kilda, Australia

all songs written by colin talbot. all songs sung by taddy. all music usually played by taddy/traven, sometimes known as travenworld...but sometimes ...wtf...

contact / help

Contact taddy

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like taddy, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring interviews with LA music scene pillar Kamasi Washington, and new London-based duo Mrcy.

listen now